During the late 1970s and 1980s, "cancer" underwent a remarkable
transformation. In one short decade, what had long been a set of
heterogeneous diseases marked by uncontrolled cell growth became a
disease of our genes. How this happened and what it means is the
story Joan Fujimura tells in a rare inside look at the way science
works and knowledge is created. A dramatic study of a new species
of scientific revolution, this book combines a detailed ethnography
of scientific thought, an in-depth account of science practiced and
produced, a history of one branch of science as it entered the
limelight, and a view of the impact of new genetic technologies on
science and society.
The scientific enterprise that Fujimura unfolds for us is
proto-oncogene cancer research--the study of those segments of DNA
now thought to make normal cells cancerous. Within this framework,
she describes the processes of knowledge construction as a social
enterprise, an endless series of negotiations in which theories,
material technologies, and practices are co-constructed,
incorporated, and refashioned. Along the way, Fujimura addresses
long-standing questions in the history and philosophy of science,
culture theory, and sociology of science: How do scientists create
"good" problems, experiments, and solutions? What are the cultural,
institutional, and material technologies that have to be in place
for new truths and new practices to succeed?
Portraying the development of knowledge as a multidimensional
process conducted through multiple cultures, institutions, actors,
objects, and practices, this book disrupts divisions among
sociology, history, anthropology, and the philosophy of science,
technology, and medicine.
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